Developer posts and news about this game.
I'm very please to announce that the Kickstarter is now live! Grab a discounted copy of the game, get in the credits, get involved with development! This will run for just 30 days so get over and stake your claim to one of the amazing rewards available exclusively to backers. CLI
I'm very pleased to announced that finally, after many years, I am finally setting up the games company I always dreamed of! First Time Games Ltd is now the official home of Go For Launch, and also my new VR Exclusive title - Inter Solar 83! Building on everything I learned from
Hi all, many thanks for the patience while I put this build together. Some people have been finding that the game no longer launches at all. This seems to be some sort of conflict between recent Nvidia drivers and older version of unity (GFL is built in unity 5... the old girl ha
Hi all, hotfix is now live! This should fix update errors. Please contact directly or via community hub if there are any further issues. Many thanks joe
Hi all, just a quick message to say I'm awware of the issue effecting some players unable to update. This was reported by the fantastic AViTSCJ (thanks!). Please stand by!
Todays patch should hopefully improve performance on some machines by streamlining the way textures and sounds are accessed by the game. In addition there are various minor bug fixes to correct crashes and memory issues.
Hi all, sorry for the delay, I've spent a little longer with this update than I initially planned. This was supposed to be just a small update to add the new in-cockpit manual to the game, but I decided to also do a lot of back end work to the code and resources, overhauling a lo
Hi all, Steam didn't like me hosting a pdf via their forum, so I've uploaded a copy of the quick start manual to the Guides section. I'm working on also adding it to the cockpit. Joe
Hi all, I hope you are all safe and well in these strange times! Just a quick update to say that I am now back on partial development, family is recovered and some restrictions are now lifted in my country (UK) which has taken some burden away with lack of childcare / homeschooli
Hi all, Just to say development is currently on hold for this title during the outbreak. Me, my wife and our 2 young children are all recovering from the virus. In addition to this all of our nation's schools have been closed for the foreseeable furture which means I am now a hom
Hi all, Version 10 is now hopefully fixed and is once again set as the default version of the game! It was a tiny bit of code, but it took a while to track down! Happy landings!
Hi all, The update to the new Aurora 7 mission went great!... but unfortunately it's broken some of the other missions. While I work on a hotfix patch for it I have restored version 0.9 as the default as it is in much better shape. If you want to fly the Aurora 7 mission you can
Hi all, Very glad to say that the Aurora 7 mission is now flyable! It's taken me a lot longer than I'd hoped due to NASA losing all the audio recordings! I have managed to piece some of the mission audio together from the partial files they have, sadly the audio is not complete,
Hi all, Just checking in as I'm sure you're all wondering when the next update is out! I've had a few setbacks with both the code, the source material and real life for the new Aurora 7 mission but I'm back on track and currently working on the mission audio. I really hope to hav
While I'm still working on the mission control feature in the background, I've switched the main focus of development to adding the next capsule (Aurora 7) to the game. It's likely the next patch will be the Aurora mission and some bug fixes, tweaks and polish. This is probably m
Hi all, Just checking in to say development is continuing and going well, I'm very pleased to have started the ground work on a new, major feature of the game - Mission control! Rather than having any sort of overlay or HUD I really wanted a way to display various bits of flight
You can now update and play with the new earth graphics overhaul. This patch adds far more detailed and advanced texturing to the planet and atmosphere. Please note these changes may be more demanding on systems, however they are scaled by the detail level setting of the game. If
Hi all, just checking in to say the next patch is coming along nicely and wont take too much longer. This update will greatly improve the terrain rendering and cloud graphics to give you a more impressive orbit. Also various bug fixes and tweaks. Once this update is done I will l
Hi all, Hopefully folk are enjoying the newly revamped Freedom 7 mission (many thanks for the bug reports...all added to the list!). As a the developer of this game I am in the unique position of seeing features well before they arrive on your screens (or headsets!) so I thought
I'm very pleased to say that the re-write of the back end code is now complete and Freedom 7 is now updated in line with the other missions (rather than the old version taken from the demo) to include... Full checklists Reentry Splashdown New Code Graphics tweaks Texture fixes Th